More than the resume

From the ledger to the data layer

Drew started in accounting, earning a Master of Accountancy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. That foundation, the discipline of making the numbers tie out and stand up to scrutiny, never left. But early on it became clear that the real bottleneck in finance was rarely the accounting itself. It was the data: scattered across systems, assembled by hand, and trusted only as far as the last person who touched the spreadsheet.

So he learned to build. SQL, VBA, SharePoint, and eventually Power BI and Microsoft Fabric became as much a part of his toolkit as the chart of accounts. Instead of producing a report, he started producing the system that produces the report, repeatable, governed, and fast.

Scaling it globally at CBRE

At CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, one of the largest facilities and real-estate services organizations in the world, that combination found its scale. Drew partnered with global leaders across HR, IT, Legal, Sales, and Operations to plan and manage SG&A, then built the platforms that made the planning repeatable rather than heroic. Over time the work moved up the stack: from analyst, to global finance manager, to a director-level role supporting commercial leadership on risk, cash conversion, and cost governance.

Integration under pressure

When CBRE acquired the JCI Global Workplace Solutions business unit, Drew owned a piece of work most people never see and everyone depends on: making two organizations' financial data tell one true, comparable story. He built and maintained the mappings that reconciled different account structures and hierarchies, the kind of careful, high-stakes work where a single bad crosswalk quietly corrupts a year of reporting. It held.

How he thinks about the work

Drew's throughline is simple: finance should be a decision tool, not a scorecard. The numbers only matter if leaders can trust them and act on them in time. That belief is why he keeps building, the model, the dashboard, the pipeline, the integration, so that by the time a decision is on the table, the data behind it is already solid.